National tobacco strategy

• New South Wales Tobacco Strategy 2012 - 2017
• Western Australian Health Promotion Strategic Framework 2017-2021
• Tasmania Tobacco Control Plan 2017-2021

We urge Victoria, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory to commit to strategic tobacco control planning.

Tobacco industry influence

Efforts to reduce smoking should be free of interference from the tobacco industry.

There are obligations under Article 5.3 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to which Australia is a signatory, to combat the influence of the tobacco industry.

Governments at a national, state and local level should free themselves of tobacco industry influence by:

• banning donations from tobacco companies and organisations associated with the tobacco industry
• ending any investment by government, pension and superannuation funds in tobacco companies

Legislation in NSW prohibits donations from the tobacco industry but no other states or territories have bans.

Superannuation fund investments

The following superannuation funds have stopped investing in tobacco companies:

• First State
• VFMC
• HESTA
• Qsuper
• Funds SA
• GESB
• AMP

To see if your fund has joined them visit Tobacco Free Portfolios.

For more information on comprehensive approaches to tobacco control see the World Heart Federation Roadmap and the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.